Wheel-guard for carriages



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PHE'R. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFIcE.

GREENLEAF BASSETT, OF BREWSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

WHEEL-GUARD FOR CARRIAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,267, dated February 10, 1880.

. Application filed June 25, 1879. v

To all whom it may concern; I

Be it known that I, GREENLEAF BASSETT, of Brewster, of the county of Barnstable, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wheel-Guards for Carriages; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- I Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a wheel-guard of my improved kind.

' In my improved wheel-guard I employ, instead of a single long friction-roller, a series of short friction-rollers arranged side by side upon one spindle, and to stand at an inolination with the base of the supporting-stock or carrier, it having been found in practice that with-a single roller having a length equal to that of the series the bore of such roller has to be so large or so-much larger in diameter than that of the sustaining-pin that the roller, unless provided with a spring, will rattle on the pin. By having a roller divided in sections, or, in other words, having the series of small rollers in .place of the single roller, each .can revolve with very little friction on its sustaining-pin, and may be fitted thereto so as not to rattle while the carriage may be in motion.

I arrange the spindle A of the set B of fric- Lion-rollers out of parallelism or at an acute angle with the upperportio-n or fastening-base of the stock or carrier 0, one arm, a, ofsuch carrier being shorter than the other, b. These arms are parallel to each other, and one of 'them makes an acute angle and the other an as it would were the surface struck by the wheel horizontal or thereabout.

I am aware that what are called .chafeirons for wheel-vehicles have been madeavith single friction-rollers arranged in their supporting-stock, as shown in the United States Patents Nos. 57,765 and 121,645. My im proved wheel-guard differs therefrom in having a series of rollers instead of a single one,

whereby I am enabled to overcome a diflicnlty incident.in practice to the single roller.

What, therefore, I claim as my invention 1s- The improved wheel-guard, substantially as described, provided with the series B of friction-wheels arranged on the su'pporting'loolt A and in the carrier 0, substantially as set forth. I GREENLEAF BASSETT.

Witnesses It. H. EDDY, W. W. LUNT. 

